Although he is only 21, Camilo Yoge has seen his indigenous tribe lose its culture, territory and traditions.

Yoge, a member of the Cofan tribe, has seen farmers, ranchers and oilmen invade his ancestral lands to plant illegal coca crops, raise cattle and search for oil. He has seen many young Cofan take to wearing Western-style clothes, listening to popular music and abandoning their native language for Spanish.

"We're losing out traditional dress, our environment," lamented Yoge, who is studying to become a taita, or shaman. "We are no longer free in our own territory."

Archeologists are opening a cave sealed for more than 30 years deep beneath a Mexican pyramid to look for clues about the mysterious collapse of one of ancient civilization's largest cities.The soaring Teotihuacan stone pyramids, now a major tourist site about an hour outside Mexico City, were discovered by the ancient Aztecs around 1500 AD, not long before the arrival of Spanish explorers to Mexico

The dwindling march of the penguins is signaling that the world's oceans are in trouble, scientists now say. Ocean pollution, global warming and other factors are affecting the world's penguins, scientists say.

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) -- Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand.Roberto Velazquez has devoted his career to recreating the forgotten sounds of his distant ancestors.

Roberto Velazquez has devoted his career to recreating the forgotten sounds of his distant ancestors.

Unknown to the majority of tourists and even residents, Thailand has a rich tradition of traditional medicine which is practiced by healers versed in techniques virtually unknown in the West. The significant feature of these techniques is that they actually work and in extreme cases have even been known to cure such ailments as cancer.